Liverpool have averted a manageable disciplinary headache ahead of the season’s second Premier League yellow card amnesty.
Both Wataru Endo and Darwin Nunez went into Sunday’s visit to Manchester United conscious that a ninth booking would location them in danger of missing a chunk of the title run-in with the Reds challenging Arsenal and Manchester City for the championship.
Players who accrue 10 bookings in the Premier League via the thirty second game are surpassed an computerized two-game suspension.
Endo had picked up a eighth league warning of the season in the 2-1 domestic win over Brighton closing week while Nunez has been in a comparable state of affairs for two months having most these days been booked in the top flight in the Anfield triumph over Burnley in February.
However, that each Endo and Nunez averted being yellow-carded at Old Trafford ability that, with Liverpool taking part in their 32nd league game of the campaign at domestic to Crystal Palace this coming Sunday, they can’t reach the 10-booking mark till after the state-of-the-art amnesty. They will, of course, be suspended regardless ought to they be despatched off in the fixture.
Following Sunday’s game, the closing Premier League amnesty will apply, with a three-match ban imposed for every body given 15 bookings before the quit of the season.
Alexis Mac Allister is the only Liverpool participant this season to have been suspended due to the totting-up method after serving a one-match ban in November having received five cautions earlier than the first amnesty in January. Mac Allister had been been despatched off on his domestic debut against Bournemouth, only for the decision to be reversed and the card retrospectively downgraded to a yellow.
Four different Liverpool gamers have served a suspension this season. Virgil van Dijk was once banned for one sport after a pink card at Newcastle in August and then slapped with a further one-match censure for his subsequent response toward referee John Brooks. Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota had been handed three-match and one-match suspensions respectively for their red playing cards at Tottenham Hotspur the following month, while Ibrahima Konate sat out one sport after being dismissed at Arsenal in February.
